May 25 Is Wine Day! Celebrate With Japanese Wine!

May 25 Is Wine Day

5月25日红酒日

Wine grapes have been cultivated for at least 2,000 years. That’s a long time! However, celebrating the grape in the online world only started a decade or so. There are at least 17 national wine days identified by the National Day Calendar and we don’t want anyone to miss on a reason to pop that cork on your favorite wine day.

酿酒葡萄的种植至少2000年的历史了，这当然是是很长的一段时间!然而，在网络世界里庆祝葡萄的活动才开始了十年左右。目前至少有17个国家日历里记载着葡萄酒日，我们也不希望任何人错过最喜欢的葡萄酒日哦。

On May 25th each year, wine lovers everywhere pour a glass of their favorite wine to celebrate National Wine Day. It is a day to appreciate wine and the science and art behind oenology.

每年的5月25日，各地的葡萄酒爱好者都会斟上一杯自己喜欢的葡萄酒，庆祝自己的葡萄酒日。这是一个品尝葡萄酒和学习葡萄酒相关的科学知识和艺术的日子。

Interesting Facts About Wine

关于葡萄酒的有趣事实

• Grapes are the most planted fruit all over the world.
• There are 10,000 varieties of wine grapes existing worldwide.
• You need to drink 7 glasses of orange juice or 20 glasses of apple juice in order to get the same amount of antioxidants in wine.
• Apparently, some people have a "fear of wine," and it's called oenophobia.
• During the early Roman times, it was forbidden for women to drink wine. Wives who were caught by their husbands drinking wine could be killed if caught in the act.
• The world's oldest wine bottle is believed to date back to the year 325. It was found near the town of Speyer, Germany, in 1867.

• 葡萄是世界上种植最多的水果。
• 全球有10000多种酿酒葡萄。
• 你需要喝7杯橙汁或20杯苹果汁，才能从中获取等同于葡萄酒中获得的等量的抗氧化剂。
• 显然，有些人有“葡萄酒恐惧症”，这被称为“恐酒症”
• 在罗马时代早期，女性是禁止喝酒的。妻子喝酒被丈夫发现时，如果当场被抓世界上最古老的酒瓶可以追溯到325年前，它诞生于1867年在德国斯派尔镇附近。

Recommended Wine

推荐酒

On this Wine Day, we invite you to open a bottle of a very special Hokkaido Zweigelt!

在这个葡萄酒日，我们邀请您打开一瓶非常特别的北海道茨威格特葡萄酒!

Zweigelt is an Austrian crossbred grape variety (St. Laurent x Blaufränkisch), suitable for growing in the Hokkaido climate and producing red wines with firm colour, tannins and spicy aromas. The dry taste with soft astringency and fruitiness goes well with meat dishes such as beef, lamb and Ezo deer, as well as fish dishes such as eel and yellowtail.

茨威格特是奥地利杂交葡萄品种(St. Laurent x Blaufränkisch)，北海道的气候非常适合种植，其具有生产的红葡萄酒坚实的颜色，单宁和刺激的香气。北海道茨威格特葡萄酒口感干爽，涩味柔和，果香浓郁，适合搭配牛肉、羊肉、鹿肉等肉类菜肴，以及鳗鱼、黄尾鱼等鱼类菜肴。

HOKKAIDO ZWEIGELT is a GI Hokkaido certified wine. The GI Hokkaido label is restricted to wines made entirely on the island from locally grown grapes. They also need to pass quality screening standards for taste and aroma so you can expect only the highest quality!

北海道茨威格特葡萄酒是经过北海道认证过的葡萄酒。GI北海道标签仅限于完全用当地种植的葡萄酿制的葡萄酒。它们还需要通过口味和香气的质量筛选标准，所以你可以享用这最高的质量葡萄酒了!